Mike Fagan Archives: 01/2011

I’m having a difficult time expressing how I feel about this Strikeforce card. The fight themselves certainly entertained me, but I almost feel guilty about…

Fan and media reaction came swift when Jay Cutler sat on the bench for most of the second half of Sunday’s NFC Championship Game between…

Herschel Walker provided the media with a tremendous amount of fodder on Monday’s Strikeforce conference call. He talked about safety in MMA and football, a…

The march toward quantifying the action inside the Octagon took another step forward today as FightMetric released official UFC records for twelve different statistical categories.  Here are…

These are the most often used words in last night’s live blog (and comment section) of the UFC’s “Fight for the Troops 2” show. Created…

I’m not sure what to think about this show. I know it was meant as a glorified infomercial for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, and it…

There are few things in MMA more interesting than Nick Diaz dealing with reporters. Diaz, living up to his reputation, showed up ten minutes late…

Cain Velasquez For the better part of the past two days, I’ve struggled with my appraoch to this writeup. Do I talk about Cain’s Mexican…

Anderson Silva vs. Chael Sonnen This was not a one-sided fight. Pick your jaw up off the floor. It wasn’t. The score was one-sided, sure,…

ALL WORK AND NO MMA MAKES HOMER SOMETHING SOMETHING “This guy is a jerk.” – Thiago Silva, responding to Jon Jones. Jones condemned Silva for drumming…

Contrary to popular belief, there is no Year Zero. Decades run from XXX1 to XX10. So while other MMA sites erroneously ran decade retrospectives last…

Contrary to popular belief, there is no Year Zero. Decades run from XXX1 to XX10. So while other MMA sites erroneously ran decade retrospectives last…

UFC 116 In normal circumstances, failing to highlight an undercard as entertaining as this one was would usher in a penalty of public flogging in…

Chael Sonnen Were you expecting someone else? Jonathan Snowden already wrote a brilliant piece summarizing the year in Chael. Rather than regurgitating his work, I…

Strikeforce took a double whammy in the last two days after news of the Strikeforce heavyweight tournament dominated the news cycle last week. First, Dana…

The UFC press conference presented a study by firm HR&A Advisors on the economic impact of sanctioned mixed martial arts in the state of New York. The…

Paul Daley Knocks Out Scott Smith The sports landscape was filled with tales of redemption through performance in 2010. Mike Vick served nineteen months in…

Fabricio Werdum Triangles Fedor Emelianenko We outlined the historical importance of Fedor’s loss in the “Upset of the Year” writeup, so we’ll breakdown the technical…

Jon Jones Jon Jones ended 2009 on a bittersweet note. After impressive showing against Stephan Bonnar at UFC 94 and Jake O’Brien at UFC 100,…

Frankie Edgar Defeats B.J. Penn in Rematch An important fact was overshadowed coming into the UFC 118 lightweight championship rematch between Frankie Edgar and B.J.…